Split modulestore persists data in three MongoDB "collections": course_index (list of courses and the current version of each), structure (outline of the courses, and some XBlock fields), and definition (other XBlock fields). While "structure" and "definition" data can get very large, which is one of the reasons MongoDB was chosen for modulestore, the course index data is very small.
By moving course index data to MySQL / a django model, we get these advantages:
* Full history of changes to the course index data is now preserved
* Includes a django admin view to inspect the list of courses and libraries
* It's much easier to "reset" a corrupted course to a known working state, by using the simple-history revert tools from the django admin.
* The remaining MongoDB collections (structure and definition) are essentially just used as key-value stores of large JSON data structures. This paves the way for future changes that allow migrating courses one at a time from MongoDB to S3, and thus eliminating any use of MongoDB by split modulestore, simplifying the stack.
Formerly, bulk management was enabled by sending feature feature
toggle to Gradebook which also checked for the presence of a
master's track to enable the feature. This default enables for all
courses with a master's track and also allows selective enabling
for courses with the feature flag.
A bug was reported of a learner accessing content that should have been hidden
due to the hide after due setting in Studio by the course team by clicking on
the Progress tab. This takes into account that value and will now hide the URL
on the Progress tab in that scenario.
* feat: Course Apps API
This adds a new concept called course apps. These are exposed via a new
"openedx.course_app" entrypoint, which helps the LMS and studio discover such
apps and list them in a new rest api for the same.
These course apps will drive the pages and resources view in the course authoring
MFE. This system will track which apps are enabled and which are disabled. It
also allows third-party apps to be listed here by using the plugin entrypoint.
* Apply feedback from review
We had been pre-escaping display names like 'Math & Science' as
'Math & Science" in the REST API itself - which meant that
consumers like MFEs that do their own escaping displayed the wrong
thing.
It's better for the API to just leave the string as-is. As far as
I know, this only affects the gradebook and progress pages, both
of which do their own escaping of the result from the API already.
AA-808
* docs: fix formatting inconsistencies in grade data model docs
* docs: add subsection grade override model
* docs: add gradebbook info to grades / background
* docs: fix formatting issues in grades / background
This helper is used by the LMS, CMS, _and_ `openedx.core`,
so let's move it to `openedx.core` to reduce import complexity.
The following files no longer import from LMS:
- cms/djangoapps/contentstore/management/commands/edit_course_tabs.py
- lms/djangoapps/ccx/migrations/0006_set_display_name_as_override.py
- openedx/core/djangoapps/ccxcon/api.py
- openedx/core/djangoapps/verified_track_content/models.py
- openedx/features/course_experience/plugins.py
Note: The LTI XBlock has a dependency on this import path (!?);
a fix can be found here [1].
- [1] https://github.com/edx/xblock-lti-consumer/pull/154
We have been bucketing all users into the relative dates experiment
since May 18, 2020. We no longer need to keep this as an
ExperimentWaffleFlag and can convert to a CourseWaffleFlag (so it
continues to support exemptions).
[MICROBA-1109]
* Remove the requirement for the `auto_certificate_generation` waffle switch to be enabled in order for a learner to be eligible for a certificate. This switch should control _when_ a certificate is generated, not _if_ a certificate will be generated for a learner.
* Move the `auto_certificate_generation_enabled` check to happen before we try to generate v2 certificates in signals.py
* Update unit tests
* Update documentation
A variety of updates were made to improve the toggle documentation:
* Added comments to help ensure that the waffle(), waffle_switches(),
waffle_flags() anti-pattern won't be contagious (copied).
* Some minor toggle_description updates.
* Removed empty toggle_target_removal_date annotations for
non-temporary toggles.
* Removed empty optional toggle_warnings annotations.
* Removed empty optional toggle_tickets annotations.
* Removed deprecated toggle_category, toggle_status,
and toggle_expiration_date annotations.
* Fixed some indents, use cases, and implementations.
ARCHBOM-1721
